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- adjective Having a tendency toward
exhibitionism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior
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Examples
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She wriggled a little, and giggled inwardly as she remembered deploring as "exhibitionistic" this same conduct in her oldest daughter.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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What kind of exhibitionistic freaks have we become?
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While some Site Platform projects have been conducted in an awkward atmosphere of voyeuristic and exhibitionistic embarrassment, the collaborative duo of Ellard & Johnston, specialists in complex assemblages of assorted fragments, promise to stage something special.
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For all his audacious travels, Vollmann's feats never come across as exhibitionistic.
Postmodernism 2010
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I know we live in an exhibitionistic culture, but why exactly would you like to have your bedroom on display 24/7?
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Someone decided the show must go on, so Bravo's exhibitionistic and tragedy-scarred Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 9/8c will commence, with a fresh interview of several of the cast members introducing the new season and reflecting the suicide of one of the wives' estranged husband.
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Gaga's voice is solid and, when she played the piano and sang on Saturday Night Live, she gave off a whiff of Laura Nyro, another Italian-American singer-songwriter, one who had genuine talent but lacked the exhibitionistic chutzpah and media-manipulation skills that Gaga has.
Marshall Fine: Annals of the Overrated: Lady Gaga and The Tree of Life Marshall Fine 2011
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About 5 p.m. on Monday, the exhibitionistic artist and brewing heiress Daphne Guinness spent about five minutes getting dressed in the windows at Barneys in advance of the big Costume Institute Gala.
Stars, Socialities at Met Gala Marshall Heyman 2011
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Being exhibitionistic Americans, they all wave or swagger for his camera.
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And yet, even in a culture where comparison has consumed so many of us who go on to lust after exhibitionistic victory and even now humiliation (if it pays and gets good ratings), we are called on to do the very thing Einstein said wasn't possible.
Carol Smaldino: The Jewish Question and the Lethal Competition for Who Suffers Most 2010
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